Scott Payne

I woke up, and I'm like, why am I waking up?

And I'm like, what time is it?

I'm like, man, I ain't even been asleep that long and I saw my phone just going nuts.

I'm like, what's going on?

And I think these are even flip phone days.

Yeah.

Right, 9-11.

And I'm like, I got all these missed calls and stuff.

And I started listening to the messages and I go, oh, I cut the TV on.

The first tower had already been hit.

Wow.

But I saw the second tower get hit.

so uh i started reaching out to people i knew yeah and for whatever reason who knows if it was because they were both fbi phones or what i was able to get through because they were getting no comms whoa uh in that area because there's just so much going on but if i got a hold of you you would say what you would say to me is hey scott or country my nickname was big country like country i'm good but could you do me a favor and call my mom my dad and my wife give me their name and numbers

So that's what I did the rest of the day.

I never went back to sleep.

I was calling and that's a weird transition because everybody sees what's going on and you got to introduce yourself on the call saying, hey, it's a special agent, Scott Payne, FBI, and then quickly get it in.

Everything's okay.

You know, your son's all right.

I'm calling for them kind of thing.

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